One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Historical realism
- Time of Work: One day in January, 1951
- Setting: A Soviet labor camp
- Principal Characters: Ivan Denisovich (Shukov), Fetyukov, Caesar Markovich, Alyoshka the Baptist, Tyurin
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Historical fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Prisoners, Survivalism, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Siberia
The Novel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is the story of a typical day in the life of a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp. It is set in 1951, near the end of the rule of Joseph Stalin, and is, on one level, an expose of Stalin’s brutal forced-labor camps, a central but suppressed fact of modern Russian history. The novel follows the title character during the course of a not-unusual winter day, in the process eliciting great respect for a simple, unreflective man and offering a commentary on life in a totalitarian society.
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